Aching traceries of grasses arch and sway across colossal canvases as part of Sam Falls’ exhibit, We Are Dust and Shadow, at moCa Cleveland now until June 11, 2023. Bits of the forest have disappeared and leave only white silhouettes behind, maybe answering the question, “What void does the natural world leave when it goes away?” Falls’ work is at […]
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There are webs that hold history captive, connecting events to one another other and to us. Bruno Casiano’s Pieces of Me, on view until April 9th in the Residency Gallery of moCa Cleveland, spins such webs out of vibrant colors and a riot of textures. (But don’t touch those paintings, no matter how much you want to.) What stories are […]
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Death cracks open and the flowers come out in Katy Richard’s Pocket Full of Posies, now at HEDGE Gallery until May 5, 2023. Here are rooms where skeletons ache behind strips of floral wallpaper, bodies shimmer underneath a heavy mask of stylized blooms twisting on vines, and the underside of a pink petal shifts to show skin. O, do these […]
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Language rills like the always-moving water that flows through “ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak),” a documentary film about the work of Cherokee activists, artists, and educators fighting to save the Cherokee language. “ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)” premiers at the Cleveland International Film Festival with one live screening only, on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Allen Theater (Q&A […]
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Sit you down and take note: powerful women surround us, in alleys and backyards, dystopian landscapes and under gentle night skies. You just have to know where and how to look. Leigh Brooklyn’s Battle Scars: The New Protagonist, at Mansfield Art Center from March 19 to April 16, reveals an army of women warriors. Works range from hyper-realistic portraits in […]
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No algorithm needed here. This is radical inclusion: 406 pieces of art sharing the similarity of being submitted by their creators by the show’s deadline. People have been busy. People have been creative. This is what over 240 artists did while we sat on the couch watching Netflix. Acrylics are everywhere and hot colors predominate. There are portraits of 80s […]
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Ruddy Roye is a documentary photographer whose editorial clients include the New York Times, Ebony, Essence, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and others. In 2016, TIME Magazine named him the Instagram Photographer of the Year. As a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow, he created “When Living is a Protest,” a project documenting how families who have lost family members to […]
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Detritus makes luminous patterns worth following in Gina Washington’s Monday’s Child, now at Prama Art Galleries through Sunday, October 17, 2022. Based on the poem “Monday’s Child,” one of the nursery rhymes-meet-fortune telling NOUNS, Washington’s show galvanizes the singsong with splendid, large collages of family members whose births aligns with each day. “I work with these connected-to-childhood sayings and fairytales […]
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An automobile’s innards, parted out in exploded schematics, can be strangely lascivious. And elegant. Seneca Kuchar’s On Blocks: Repair Manual for an American Dream, at Waterloo Arts through Saturday, October 1, 2022, presents the breakdown of things unseen: car guts, rendered for delectation in colors not found in automotive factories, on mylar and steel and cellophane. Large sheets of opaque […]
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Art and activism collide in Ahmet Öğüt’s Bakunin’s Barricade at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio. Part of the 2022 FRONT Triennial, this massive installation remains on view until December 23, 2022 in its North American premiere. Öğüt, a Kurdish-born artist working across media, collaborated with Oberlin College students and museum staff to create an assemblage that questions […]
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